Free PDF and Review: The Blood of Sprinkling and the Children

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Charles Spurgeon. The Blood of Sprinkling and the Children.  Pensacola, FL: Chapel Library, September 14, 2014. 24 pp.

5 out of 5

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Want to read a short but edifying devotional on the Passover in Exodus and how it points to Christ while also challenging parents to teach children the Gospel?  This devotional booklet might be for you!  This is based upon a sermon by the famous Victorian era English preacher Charles Spurgeon that he preached for a Lord’s Day church service based upon the text of Exodus 12:21-27.  While the book doesn’t say when this message was delivered, I looked it up online and found out that the sermon was originally preached on October 23, 1887.  It is amazing to think that 135 years later readers in a different century in a different Continent can find it not only relevant but refreshing.  This speaks to the testimony of how Bible based teaching that’s focus on the Gospel has staying power.

The booklet consists of two parts: Part one is titled “The Importance Attached to the Blood” while part two is titled “The Institution Connected with the Passover.”  By far the biggest portion is with part one; part two begins on page 20 and the booklet ends on page 24.  Under part one there’s seven points that shows the importance of the blood sacrifice of the Lamb.  Part two is more of a homilectical application of the need for parents to teach their children the substitutionary atonement of Christ for sins.

I was warmed in my heart to love Jesus reading this booklet.  I think booklets like these are important not only for non-Christians to hear the Gospel and be saved but also for believers so that we can be sanctified; Spurgeon is conscious of this point as he powerfully stated in the message: “The atonement applied to the conscience saves from despair, and then acting upon the heart it saves from the love of evil.”  To that I say amen!  What can help us to turn away from the love of evil than the atonement by Christ?  Part two was also very good and encouraging with using the opportunity of the Lord’s Supper to point children to Christ.  Spurgeon said “It is well to explain to children the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper, for this shows forth the death of Christ in symbol. I regret that children do not oftener see this ordinance. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper should both be placed in view of the rising generation, that they may then ask us, “What mean ye by this?”  This is a good application from the fact that during the Passover that children are meant to be taught biblical truths from the Old Testament economy of the ordinance of Passover: “And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 that you shall say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’ ” So the people bowed their heads and worshiped” (quoting from the NKJV of Exodus 12:26-27).  I recommend this book, its readable in terms of its simplicity, brevity and passion for the Gospel!

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